Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

The Cult of Saints in Wales

This is a four-year funded project which began in April 2013. It is led at the Centre by Dr David Parsons, in association with Dr Jane Cartwright, University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

The project will produce a digital edition of Welsh-language texts relating to the medieval cult of saints (poems addressed to saints, prose lives, genealogical texts), together with extensive contextual information. Researchers Dr Alaw Mai Edwards and Eurig Salisbury have begun the large programme of transcription; the National Library have begun to digitize many of the relevant manuscripts; and King's College London is developing the software environment for the edition.